Joe Biden’s Identity Reckoning

He may have been VP, but he’s old, white, male and heterosexual.

Spare a sympathetic thought for Joe Biden. He may have unmatched government experience as Vice President (eight years) and Senator (36 years), but he’s also old, white, male, a heterosexual with no apparent gender ambiguity, and he’s also not a socialist. This failure to check any box of modern progressive identity politics may end up disqualifying him as a Democratic presidential nominee even though he probably has the best chance to defeat Donald Trump.

Mr. Biden hasn’t even announced whether he’ll run for President, but...